Climate-Only Models Likely Underestimate Species Extinction, Study Finds
Climate-Only Models Likely Underestimate Species Extinction, Study Finds
To accurately predict species' distributions and risk of extinction, models must include more than just...
Global warming begets more warming, new paleoclimate study finds
Researchers observe a “warming bias” over the past 66 million years that may return if ice sheets disappear.
It is increasingly clear that the prolonged...
Crushing climate impacts to hit sooner than feared: draft UN report
A draft copy of the upcoming Working Group II (WG2) report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on the impacts of climate...
Climate change: Amazon may be turning from friend to foe
The Brazilian Amazon released nearly 20 percent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the last decade than it absorbed, according to a stunning...
Climate has shifted the axis of the Earth
Glacial melting due to global warming is likely the cause of a shift in the movement of the poles that occurred in the 1990s.
The...
Climate change is making it harder to get a good cup of coffee
Ethiopia may produce less specialty coffee and more rather bland tasting varieties in the future. This is the result of a new study by...
Scientists’ findings suggest corals will withstand climate change
Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who championed the theory of evolution, noted that corals form far-reaching structures, largely made of limestone, that surround tropical...
Lightning strikes will more than double in Arctic as climate warms
In 2019, the National Weather Service in Alaska reported spotting the first-known lightning strikes within 300 miles of the North Pole. Lightning strikes are...
Climate change cut global agricultural productivity 21% since 1960s
Despite important agricultural advancements to feed the world in the last 60 years, a Cornell-led study shows that global farming productivity is 21% lower...
Ignoring climate change will lead to unprecedented, societally disruptive heat extremes in the Middle...
The Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) is a climate change hot spot where summers warm much faster than in the rest of...
Natural variations help resolve a climate puzzle
New research shows that naturally occurring climate variations help to explain a long-standing difference between climate models and satellite observations of global warming.
Satellite measurements...
